By Commas, Gerunds

Hi,1. Attentively, he looks at each picture in the huge photo album to search for a familiar face that he can vaguely remember. 2. Attentively, he looks at each picture in the huge photo album searching for a familiar face that he can vaguely remember. You wrote, “I wouldn't disagree with...

The structure you're asking about contains a FOR ... TO ... clause, like this basic structure: IT IS/WAS (not) FOR subject TO verb. (Of course these are the subject and verb of the FOR ... TO ... clause -- not the subject and verb of the sentence.) 1. Basic structure: It is easy for me...

Since the participle directly follows the noun it modifies, my teacher would have told me to use a comma. But then again, I'm starting to notice that there is no definite way to punctuate participle phrases when they directly follow the word they modify. Some authors will only exclude the comma...

So is drifting a participle in this sentence? If so, I wonder why it wasn't preceded by a comma? And yeah, I'm in 'Rado!

Hello, this is my first post here, I like to know these wordskilometercentimeterAre those words noun if they are standing alone ? if it's, what kind of noun it's, proper noun or abstract noun or etc ?After that, I want to indentify the part of speech of the following sentence by using the...

Hello, this is my first post here, I like to know these wordskilometercentimeterAre those words noun if they are standing alone ? if it's, what kind of noun it's, proper noun or abstract noun or etc ?After that, I want to indentify the part of speech of the following setence by using the...

Takchi_l wrote:Please explain me the grammatical rule!! 1. The president's speaking remarks always come across much more powerfully than his published reports. ricky: The president's speaking remarks always come across much more powerful than his published reports. Wrong - "powerfully" is...

But we do each get a Christmas hamper, full of adverbs, prepositions, gerunds, and comma splices. (Though I'm sorry to say there was a dangling modifier in mine, last year. Office Services please note.) Please explain the highlighted group of words or rephrase the sentences. Please you...

User_gary wrote:Are moderators getting salary/commission or any income for their hardwork/services? No money, no. But we do each get a Christmas hamper, full of adverbs, prepositions, gerunds, and comma splices. (Though I'm sorry to say there was a dangling modifier in mine, last year. Office...

a) not correct, too truncated b) so as isn't formal enough (M-W indicates it as "obsolete"), such as may be preferred in exams c) seems the right one to me, with a comma after kindly. d) I understand the meaning, but I'd not use it. Just doesn't sound right. Now then, I've found that b)...